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• 1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer died
• 1851 - Mary Shelley, English author died
• 1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer born
• 1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer born
• 1902 - Langston Hughes, American writer born
• 1918 - Muriel Spark, Scottish author born
• 1941 - Jerry Spinelli, American children's author born

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• 1534 - Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer born
• 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French author born
• 1804 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet born
• 1848 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author born
• 1914 - William S. Burroughs, American author born
• 1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet died
• 1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet died

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• 1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer died
• 1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist born
• 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist died
• 1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet died
• 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author born
• 1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer died
• 1885 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer born
• 1905 - Paul Nizan, French author born
• 1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author died
• 2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author died
• 2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author died

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• 1783 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet born
• 1834 - Felix Dahn, German author born
• 1874 - Amy Lowell, American poet born
• 1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet died
• 1923 - Brendan Behan, Irish author born
• 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist born
• 1940 - J. M. Coetzee, South African author born

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• 1567 - Thomas Campion, English composer and poet born
• 1704 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer born
• 1724 - Elkanah Settle, English writer died
• 1777 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet born
• 1818 - Otto Ludwig, German writer born
• 1828 - George Meredith, English writer born
• 1861 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author born
• 1865 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer born
• 1912 - R. F. Delderfield, English author born
• 1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author born
• 1932 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author born
• 1989 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist died
• 1995 - Robert Bolt, English writer died
• 1996 - Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction writer died

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• 1692 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer born
• 1828 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer born
• 1856 - Frank Harris, Irish author born
• 1885 - Jules Vallès, French writer died
• 1961 - Phillip Hamilton, American author born
• 1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer died

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• 1826 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet born
• 1831 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer born
• 1838 - Henry Adams, American historian and novelist born
• 1866 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet born
• 1876 - George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian born
• 1886 - Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic born
• 1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet died
• 1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer died
• 1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer died
• 1944 - Richard Ford, American novelist born
• 1954 - Iain Banks, Scottish author born
• 1968 - Warren Ellis, British comic book writer born
• 1977 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet died
• 1992 - Angela Carter, English writer died

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• 1583 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer died
• 1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian born
• 1654 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer died
• 1658 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer born
• 1780 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet died
• 1803 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet died
• 1846 - Wilson Barrett, English playwright born
• 1849 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author born
• 1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer born
• 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
• 1896 - Andre Breton, French writer born
• 1898 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet born
• 1909 - Wallace Stegner, American writer born
• 1929 - Len Deighton, British author born
• 1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer born
• 1936 - Jean Auel, American writer born
• 1942 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author died
• 1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer born
• 1955 - Miles Tredinnick, English playwright born
• 1982 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author died
• 1997 - Emily Hahn, American writer died

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